Jay W. Freiberg

Attorney Jay W. Freiberg is a partner with the Elman Freiberg PLLC law firm in New York, New York. A top-ranked lawyer with more than 25 years of total legal experience, Mr. Freiberg provides exceptional counsel and support to a diverse range of private clients throughout the state who have legal needs involving any of the following:

•       Trust and estate litigation
•       Commercial litigation
•       Real estate litigation

Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Freiberg has gained a reputation for his remarkable legal abilities and aggressive advocacy on behalf of his clients. He has extensive experience dealing with matters involving closely held businesses, tax and insurance law, as well as real estate, and he has gained a reputation as a leading attorney for all types of contested estate and trust matters.

A leader in his field, Mr. Freiberg serves as an adjunct legal professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he has facilitated classes in legal writing for more than 10 years. He has also written extensively and conducted numerous lectures and continuing legal education seminars on a variety of topics, and he serves as a pro bono trust and estate litigation attorney for The New York Public Library. 

Honored for his outstanding professionalism and service, Mr. Freiberg has received designation as a Top-Rated Trusts and Estate Lawyer by both New York Magazine and the New York Law Journal.

A 1990 graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, Mr. Freiberg obtained his Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1993. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as well as before the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and the U.S. Tax Court.

Mr. Freiberg serves as chair of Trust & Estate Magazine's Litigation Committee, and he is a member of the New York City Bar Association's Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Courts Committee; the Real Property, Trusts and Estates Law Section and Probate & Fiduciary Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association; and the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, Trusts and Estates Law Section and Litigation Committee of the New York State Bar Association.  He is also a Fellow of the peer elected American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).